# Chasing Mummies: Oh Mighty Isis, History Channel has killed again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757 "2010-07-15T07:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757/81 "2010-08-05T02:10:28Z")
I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS GO AWAY! Now I’m off to a book signing. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757/82 "2010-08-05T02:12:30Z")
I read that with the staccato he speaks in. Ha! I know this is kind of mean, but is it me or does Zoe sort of look like one of the mummies? I think it’s because she is a very thin girl, but also has a bit of a long face. The way her skin puckers around her mouth makes me think of a mummy. _kanye shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757/83 "2010-08-05T02:23:42Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@aruvqan](#): > > > > Every other archeological expedition I have heard about, and dig site I have been on allowed potty breaks and meal breaks. _NOBODY_ goes into a dig site for a full shift and never leaves it. The show were being fracking assholes about it for dramatic purposes. If I had my dead laptop from a few years ago [roomies cat peed in it, I pitted the cat when it happened] I have piccys of a friends dig site complete with portajohns in egypt … the family that has the digsite sanitary contract makes a freakiing fortune off american teams … [at least going by what Warren reports he pays for portajohn service] It isnlt like they allow them to dig a hole any more. Egyptology is huge moneymaking business for egyptians. No nonegyptians are allowed to perform certain functions as contractors. Some friends think this is essentially a huge ripoff as they keep jacking up the prices for nonegyptians. > > I think the point is that it takes them like 4 hours to hike up the pyramid to get through the 5 chambers, then 4 hours to get back out again. So, it’s not like 2 hours in, they can turn around, go outside, take a piss, and walk right back in. Actually no it doesnt … it is set up for tourism for most places except the chambers above main ceiling - it has steps up the outside, and it has [handrails and cletes](http://www.danciprari.com/images/worldtrip/cairo/eg-great-pyramid-inside-kristen-2-600.jpg) for the main passages that have slopes. Check the[line of tourists](http://www.sal2009.com/view.php?video=b6_48KiNIO8&feature=youtube_gdata&title=The+Great+Pyramids+of+Giza+Cairo+Egypt+%E5%9F%83%E5%8F%8A%E9%87%91%E5%AD%97%E5%A1%94) waiting to get in at about the 2 minute mark. More [idiot tourist tricks](http://www.danciprari.com/worldtrip/cairo.htm) with the great pyramid. I wonder how much income it kills to have to block off tourist traps for them to film this bullshit show … ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757/84 "2010-08-05T11:25:09Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS GO AWAY! Now I’m off to a book signing. Do you, perhaps, have an Indiana-er-Dr. Hawas Chapeau I might purchase? (We named the _dog_ Hawass!) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757/85 "2010-08-08T02:09:17Z")
I agree THC is damn near hopeless these days, but IIRC they had another show about Egypt recently with a lot of stuff about the Step Pyramid. It was a good, old fashioned style documentary on the subject, and I was astonished to learn about the several miles of tunnels under the structure, built so long ago. Imagine being a foreign visitor when the pyramid was new. You’ve almost certainly come from a country with a more primitive lifestyle. In many cases, you might have never seen a straight wall, a door, or a ceiling. You would probably have thought the Egyptians were gods who created mountains and caves. Come to think of it, though, that might have been The National Geographic Channel. ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757/86 "2010-08-08T11:11:45Z")
From Zoë D’Amato’s History Channel bio: "She grew up on a small family farm riding horses, swimming in rivers and camping in the wilderness. " When I went into the woods, I remembered to look for landmarks, etc. so I could find my way back out. I think I’d do the same inside a pyramid out of habit. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757/87 "2010-08-08T16:04:26Z")
> [@Jormungandr](#): > > From Zoë D’Amato’s History Channel bio: > > "She grew up on a small family farm riding horses, swimming in rivers and camping in the wilderness. " > > When I went into the woods, I remembered to look for landmarks, etc. so I could find my way back out. I think I’d do the same inside a pyramid out of habit. Look at a map of the [pyramid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza), it isnt that much - compared to the [Ramesseum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesseum) … a few passagways that in general are marked for tourists, with one section above the Kings chamber that is off limits, and one unfinished chamber under the Queens chamber. If anything, do the classic D&D trick of always turning to the right hand passage on the way in, and the left hand passage on the way out … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chasing-mummies-oh-mighty-isis-history-channel-has-killed-again/546757.md?page=4)